For people who attended Crawford High School or would have attended if they hadn't moved -- or just have fond memories of San Diego in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
Ted Hazlewood '63, among others, emailed me the link to the Penny Postcards site, which allows you to look at historical views from all over America. Click HERE to check it out.
Click HERE to watch a hilarious sendup of West Side Story.
Wanna know how much a $1.29 Jumbo Jack would have cost in 1948? John Clay '69 provides a Cost of Living Calculator so you can figure it out.
8-year old Oceanside resident Nikki Hahn is the star of a hilarious video put together by Tom Hanks for the Jimmy Kimmel show. Click HERE to read about her in the Union-Tribune. Click HERE to watch the seven-minute video. (I just figured out if you click on the thingy in the lower right hand corner of the video it fills up your whole computer screen -- it's like being in the front row at the movies.)
Click HERE to watch a three-minute clip from a Frank Sinatra fundraiser held in Saint Louis on June 20, 1965. Johnny Carson substitutes for an ailing Joey Bishop. The story of how this video surfaced is fascinating. Click HERE to read about it.
I've been hearing about this video and finally took the time to watch it when it came around again last week. It's a fascinating video of film shot nearly a century ago of the Ford Model T on the assembly line. Click HERE to watch Henry Ford personally ride in the Model T Number 15,000,000.
Starbucks buddy Ande McCarren had never heard of Mr. Walker and Mr. Wheeler -- and she's riding shotgun while her grand daughter Stephanie Wheeler has her Learner's Permit. Incredibly, you can view this 1950 classic at home -- if you've got a fairly new computer and cable or DSL. Click HERE to enjoy it.
This 1959 Thomas Brothers Map Book of San Diego will bring back memories for some of you of a time when you went out the Alvarado Freeway, or down the Wabash Freeway, or drove through Balboa Park on the Cabrillo Freeway -- and there was NO freeway to Mission Beach. You had to suffer through the traffic circle at Frontier and Rosecrans.
This 1959 Thomas Brothers Map Book of San Diego will bring back memories for some of you of a time when you went out the Alvarado Freeway, or down the Wabash Freeway, or drove through Balboa Park on the Cabrillo Freeway -- and there was NO freeway to Mission Beach. You had to suffer through the traffic circle at Frontier and Rosecrans.